Dainichi Nyorai
大日如来坐像
Artwork · Unkei · 1175–1176 · statue · Enjō-ji Temple
Unkei’s earliest extant work1: the seated Dainichi Nyorai, about a metre high in the form of a bodhisattva, made under the direction of his father Kōkei. Its inscription is dated 1175; it took 326 days and carries Unkei’s ornamental signature2. TNM, Unkei 2017, “his son and pupil Unkei produced his earliest extant work, Dainichi Nyorai (No. 4) for Enjoji temple in Nara”. ↩ Kobayashi 1954, “Statue of Dainichi-nyorai, Vairocana, or the esoteric Saka, at Enjo-ji Temple, Nara, dated 1175, which was made under the direction of his father” · “The statue is in the form of Bodhisattva about 1-metre high” · “it took 326 days for its completion” · “Also it bears his ornamental signature”. ↩ Literatur Kobayashi 1954: Takeshi Kobayashi, Study on the Life and Works of Unkei. English Summary, (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Monograph No. 1), Tenri 1954. TNM, Unkei 2017: UNKEI – The Great Master of Buddhist Sculpture (special exhibition, 2017), in: Tokyo National Museum, Exhibitions (2017), https://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_free_page/index.php?id=1861&lang=en (zuletzt abgerufen am 28.10.2026).